BackingBand: Jam Tracks

Your own band, ready to play whatever you're working on.

BackingBand turns a chord chart into a real-sounding rhythm section: drums, bass, keys and guitar that actually groove. Pick a chart, press play, and practice with a band behind you instead of a metronome.

WHAT YOU CAN DO
• Start from a curated library of ready-to-play tunes, or build your own: enter the chords, arrange your sections (intro, verse, chorus, bridge, solo, outro), and the band plays them back.
• Import charts from iReal Pro: paste a link or choose an exported file, and the band picks a matching style for supported charts.
• Pick from 38 styles: swing, jazz waltz, bebop, modal jazz, bossa nova, samba, shuffle and slow blues, classic and hard rock, funk, disco, neo-soul, reggae, ska, K-pop, second line, Afro and more. Switch styles anytime and the whole band re-arranges.
• Make it yours: set the tempo and key, reshape the groove section by section, and balance, mute, solo or swap instruments in the mixer.
• Practice with purpose: loop any passage with A-B repeat, count yourself in, and follow the chart as it scrolls with the music.

A BAND THAT BREATHES, NOT A STIFF LOOP
Real intros and endings, fills between sections, and a rhythm section that lifts behind your solo instead of repeating the same bar. Whether you're shedding ii-V-I changes, grinding the 12-bar blues or running a pop tune, the backing feels like players in a room.

READS LIKE A REAL LEAD SHEET
Clean chord symbols in jazz shorthand or spelled out, Roman numerals under every chord, colors by chord quality, and 2 or 4 bars per row. On iPad the chart grows with the screen, in portrait or landscape, and works in Split View and Stage Manager.

GENRES
Jazz · Blues · Pop · Rock · Funk · Soul/R&B · Latin · Reggae

FOR EVERY PLAYER
Guitarists, pianists, horn and reed players, bassists, singers, students and teachers: anyone who learns faster with a band behind them. Available in English and Simplified Chinese.

FREE TO START, PRO ONCE
Start free and save up to 5 charts. BackingBand Pro is a one-time purchase, no subscription:
• Save unlimited charts
• Play any chart in all 12 keys
• The full chord palette: sus, color chords and every 7th beyond the dominant 7th
• Create charts in 3/4, 6/8 and 12/8, and change individual bars to supported meters, including 2/4

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
No account or ads. Your charts stay on your device, and the band keeps playing in the background. Usage analytics helps us improve the app; you can turn it off in Settings. We do not send your chart contents or audio to analytics.

Download BackingBand and never practice to silence again.